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Definition of "veracious" []

  • Honest; truthful. (adjective)
  • Accurate; precise. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "veracious" in a sentence
  • "Now, if you want to know how much of this so-called veracious story is really true, I cannot quite say."
  • "If you secretly or openly hold that to be just and veracious which is successful, then it needs no further demonstration that penalties of ultimate failure are exacted for injustice, because it is precisely the failure that constitutes the injustice."
  • "From here on, "veracious" tells the story of a dying game."